Pinebook Pro bricked?
06-06-2020, 08:06 AM
Hi there. I booted into a Kali img from an SD card and then proceeded to try to flash a Kali img file to the eMMC. The flash crashed part way through and when I try to reboot I can no longer boot from either the eMMC or SD card. I tried flashing several OS's (Manjaro SD/eMMC img, Debian SD/eMMC img, etc) to an SD card and then rebooting, but no luck. My understanding is that both the Manjaro and Debian images also include the boot program, and the boot order prioritizes SD over eMMC, so I should be able to boot onto an SD img even if the eMMC is corrupted? All I get when I power on is a solid red power LED, but nothing boots.
When I'm flashing the SD cards, I download the OS img and then use 'unxz -d osname.img.xz' to decompress the OS img and then use etcher to flash it.
I tried flashing the Kali img to eMMC with the following command: 'sudo dd if=kali-linux-2020.2-pinebook-pro.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress' when it crashed.
If anyone could let me know what I'm doing wrong or where to go from here that would be much appreciated!
When I'm flashing the SD cards, I download the OS img and then use 'unxz -d osname.img.xz' to decompress the OS img and then use etcher to flash it.
I tried flashing the Kali img to eMMC with the following command: 'sudo dd if=kali-linux-2020.2-pinebook-pro.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress' when it crashed.
If anyone could let me know what I'm doing wrong or where to go from here that would be much appreciated!